Spiced paprika eggplant

Rowena Dumlao-Giardina resides in Italy, cooking and photographing her family's interesting meals on Apron and Sneakers. After moving to Italy in 1999 from the Philippines, she has traveled extensively around the country and the rest of ...

Simple but flavorful!

Here's a simple way to celebrate one of our most loved vegetables. A few spices give us more reasons to keep eggplant on the table.

Eggplants are wonderful vegetables, and they are also excellent to cook with. A quick and easy side dish with an attitude, here's a recipe that's so easy to do yet so tasty. Just chop, mix and let the oven do the cooking!

Spiced paprika eggplant recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients:

1 eggplant, diced

1/2 teaspoon mild paprika

Pinch of cayenne pepper or any chili powder of your choice

Salt

Extra virgin olive oil

Fresh parsley, finely chopped

Directions:

In an oven pre-heated to 360 degrees F, cook the eggplant for 20 minutes or until cooked through. Note: If you are using a fan or convection oven, cook for the first 10 minutes with the fan on to make it crunchy outside then the remaining 10 minutes without the fan.